That's INCREDIBLY exciting!!!!! :eek: :p :eek: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
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That's INCREDIBLY exciting!!!!! :eek: :p :eek: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
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Originally Posted by mimitabby
Similar to Duck on Wheel's Avatar. :)
Pretty much where it ends up on me, but it never stops me. I have treats like that so infrequently. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.
Yeah, me too. I thought that thread was remarkably open minded but it got out of handQuote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Even at home with my parents, I try to avoid religion and politics as subjects. It just inevitably escalates and gets ugly
Well, I skipped it - I'm doing well on Weight Watchers and don't want to jinx it. But I'm told they had a cheesecake to die for. I think it was catered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.
Shoot, now I gotta go check out the church thread.....
Oh well that sounds much nicer than the rubber lemon pie. I don't think I could have resisted like you did! I'm impressed.Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
(licking the sour cream off the plate where my baked potato used to be a few minutes ago...not that you could have actually SEEN a potato under the sour cream mountain though...) :eek:
I had incentive, I lost 2 more pounds this week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.
I suck as a mom. :( I could not go to the concert. :mad: My baby looked great and DH is filming it on our camera. Still, I suck. :(
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Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3
You Don't Suck!
You sound like a great mom to me. You just have some physical restrictions.
That Is All.......................
I still feel like poop. J. is coming over tonight with chicken soup and ice cream. I've rubbing Vicks Vaporub into every muscle I can reach. I just plain hurt all over. Two of my colleagues will cover my clinic tomorrow, and my call shift tomorrow night, if need be. I really hope to feel a lot better so I can do the call shift. It's such a burden to cover a 12 hr night for another midwife.
OH COME ON Jennifer, like it's your fault that you got sick? You don't tell your kids they are bad when they are sick do you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3
They know how much you'd like to be there!
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
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I knew J would care for you. :D Now you rest and do not worry, your shift will be covered should you need it covered. Your health is the most important thing right now. Rest and allow J to pamper you. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
Thank You Mimi. I was so looking forward to it, especially since I missed the twins' concerts. I am looking forward to them coming home so I can watch the concert.Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
My family is very understanding, but I still feel badly. :(
Ok Jennifer- Please forgive me for butting in to your business, BUTT....
there are two ways of feeling sorry for yourself. The first way is exemplified by Lise feeling like crap and treating her poor suffering self well with Vaporub and bed and allowing her beau to come bring soup and feel sorry for her too. The Bad Thing is something from outside, not something she was responsible for creating. She will roundly embrace her feeling bad and thus be able to then let it go quicker.
The second way to feel sorry for yourself is to blame yourself for your illness AND for the consequences of your illness. You might be imagining your family is angry at you for being sick- so you take over their anger and get mad at yourself so you can beat them to it, thus swiping THEIR ability to be angry with you. :rolleyes: UNfortunately, that method creates a negative/negative situation, only the two negatives don't make a positive here. I know you don't just have a cold, but perhaps you can treat your up and down days as separate events to be dealt with individually. Maybe that will make them more manageable in your mind if they are not one big thing. It's always a good method to break a Big Thing into smaller parts in order to more effectively manage it.
Your family doesn't want you sulking around in a black mood kicking yourself. Don't teach your kids that one should hate themselves when they are sick. They want you to be as much like the Mommy they know and love as you can. That doesn't necessarily mean you driving around doing stuff- it means putting on a good positive attitude even if you miss being able to do a lot of things you were able to before. I'm sure your smiling face and loving attitude is WAY more important and reassuring to them than your "doing" things like going places with them and doing errands, etc.
I remember when my 2 daughters were in school. They were in the choir, band, orchestra, etc. There were concerts all the time, and much as I love my girls, it became a chore to try to go to every one. So my exDH and I decided back then to alternate our attending the concerts, unless it was a very special event. That worked out well for everyone, and my kids felt good that there was always one of us there watching. They didn't really need us BOTH to be there every time. I guess I'm trying to say that kids are very understanding and resilient if they feel loved.
So feel sorry for yourself- in a healthy enthusiastic way! Too many people love you and they can't all be wrong. :D - you are RICH. Really go to town and be miserable, feel mega bad about missing the concert and other things, but... don't BLAME yourself because that's a path that goes nowhere. xoxox
Speaking of misery...
Hey Lise, I really FEEL that miserable cold you've got now! Ugh, the fever, coughing, sore throat, headache, earaches, running nose, shivering, weakness, burning eyes, no appetite....that was me all over last week!
Now I am so beyond thrilled to be 2/3 better. You have my total sympathy and understanding. It's a whopping NASTY cold. I guess it's a cold because I never threw up or got upset stomache at all.
So here's to really feeling bad so we can get better prepared to feel good again. (Does that make sense? I'm not sure!) :confused:
I'm SHOCKED!, SHOCKED, I tell you!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
Thank you Lisa. :) My children never see me upset about what has happened, I would never allow that. I save it for here. ;) Nick understood why I could not be there. My kids are wonderful and so is my husband. Life has changed for all of us, but not in a bad way, it is different, but not bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.